Reporting to the Equipment Manager, the Equipment Technologist/Technician is responsible for providing complete support to specified work centers in Micralyne’s Front & Back End operational areas (Litho & Bonding, CVD/ETCH/Furnaces, Metal, Wet Processing, Dicing, Back end & Assembly).

Key Responsibilities:

Main duties:

Prime interface for communications to operations staff and engineering support staff for specified work centers.

Responsible for complete equipment set within specified work center including:

]]>0ciprianhttp://www.micralyne.com/?p=47472015-02-21T05:03:28Z2015-02-21T04:56:07ZDesktop support is responsible for the performance, integrity and security of Micralyne computers. They will prepare new computers, trouble existing computers and maintain computer base tools in a production environment. As a member of the IT department, desktop support will have a secondary role in assisting with network administration and database administration.

Key Responsibilities:

Implementation and support of desktop operating systems.

Perform new hardware and OS installations and upgrades

Tuning the operating system and application configuration

Providing support and resolving technical problems

Implementation and support of Linux or Windows servers

Administration of communication systems (phone, email, security)

Maintain backups for desktop PCs, tools, and servers

Knowledge & Skills

Knowledge of server/application communication on TCP/IP networks through firewalls

Knowledge of network concepts such as network protocols, switches, routers

Knowledge of various backup and recovery procedures and protocols

Ability to perform performance monitoring and tuning

Ability to troubleshoot and maintain software and hardware

Ability to replace hardware in computers

Exceptional listening and communications skills

Network LAN experience

Infrastructure design, development, server builds

Experience providing server administration and customer support in medium/large environments

Edmonton, AB, January 28, 2015 – Micralyne Inc. is pleased to announce that Canadian private equity investor FTC Technologies Inc. has purchased 98 per cent of the corporation, and is on track to acquire the remaining shares. Micralyne is one of the leading independent providers of development and manufacturing services for micro-electro mechanical systems (MEMS) and micro fabrication in the life sciences, telecommunications, automotive, energy and aerospace industries.

Micralyne President and CEO, Mike Ciprick commented, “Transitioning from a broad and diverse shareholder base to a focused, agile investor team brings us the ownership structure and resources to grow assertively and expand our market share in industrial MEMS sectors.”

FTC Technologies Inc. Chairman, Ric Forest said, “This acquisition and our commitment to ongoing investment in Micralyne will leverage the company’s leadership, engineering expertise and manufacturing capacity for the long-term benefit of our customers. We were attracted to the sound fundamentals of the company, its people and its strategic opportunities.”

“MEMS devices are increasingly sophisticated, as they enable breakthroughs in medical devices and miniaturized instrumentation. Micralyne’s fabrication capabilities and experience are well suited to create industry-changing product concepts like those in our portfolio,” commented Dr. John Randall, President Zyvex Labs, LLC. “We have been very pleased with both the technical skills and professionalism of the Micralyne teams that we work with. I believe the new ownership will accelerate Micralyne’s ability to meet our needs.”

Micralyne is entering a growth phase with opportunities in MEMS process development and manufacturing, expanded Foundry Plus services and the MEMS product sectors. Among these, the company plans to extend design, package and testing capabilities to create more flexible, vertically integrated MEMS solutions. Micralyne will leverage its new MicraGEM- SiTM wafer-processing and MicraSilQTM Wafer Level Packaging methodologies to expand its fabrication of pressure sensors, optical switching devices, and accelerometers.

About Micralyne Inc. Privatized in 1998 and headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Micralyne’s diverse customer base includes innovative Fortune 100 companies and pioneering high-tech start-ups. Micralyne has a proven manufacturing track record certified to ISO9001 and ISO13485. With a rich development history, Micralyne prides itself on commercializing highly complex MEMS devices for its customers.

About FTC Technologies Inc. FTC Technologies Inc. is a privately held equity investment firm based in western Canada.

Edmonton, AB, March 11, 2014 – Researchers and companies creating innovative micro-electro mechanical systems (MEMS) to improve the functionality of new products in the communications, sensor and biotechnology markets now have the opportunity to design into an established fabrication process. The new MicraGEM-Si™ process platform will allow designers to prototype devices within defined design rules, which will greatly reduce the initial cost and risk of development, while speeding the time to market for MEMS-based devices such as inertial sensors and optical switches.

Micralyne Inc., an independent MEMS solutions company, will offer this unique silicon MEMS process for broad access in collaboration with CMC Microsystems. This partnership will allow designers to purchase a portion of a MEMS fabrication run through use of a multi-product wafer strategy. CMC Microsystems will provide the front-end sales, design documentation, and design consolidation services for MicraGEM-Si™. Micralyne will also provide this platform directly to companies that would like to purchase a full fabrication run or who need customization of the technology.

“Our MicraGEM-Si™ platform is ideally suited for the manufacture of tilting mirrors and mirror arrays for variable optical attenuators (VOA) and wavelength selective switch (WSS) modules, commonly used in fiber optic telecom networks. We have been developing and manufacturing this process technology for lead customers for the past three years, and now we can offer it widely with a comprehensive design guide through CMC Microsystems.” said Collin Twanow, Micralyne’s vice president of sales and marketing.

“The MicraGEM-Si™ platform is a unique offering to our MEMS clients,” said Alex Edwards, vice-president of commercial operations for CMC Microsystems. “This partnership with Micralyne ensures both a seamless path from design confirmation to volume manufacturing for industrial R&D, and research access for academic inquiry.”

The platform consists of an SOI (silicon-on-insulator) base wafer with customer-defined cavities, support posts, and electrical wiring. A top SOI wafer, with optional cavities, is then fusion-bonded to the base wafer. The handle wafer is removed, leaving a precise thickness MEMS device layer. A patterned metal layer is added for high reflectivity, circuit routing, and wire bonding. The top side of the wafer can be patterned and etched to release the MEMS devices. Micralyne’s unique process capability provides high-yield wafer bonding after several masks of pattern and etch. Alignment tolerance between the bottom layers and the final top silicon layer is within +/- 0.4 microns. This allows for complex structures such as staggered vertical comb-drive actuators, providing low voltage operation and a linear voltage vs. tilt response for micro-mirrors.

The design submission deadline for the first build of MicraGEM-Si™ is June 4, 2014. Successive campaigns will have design submission deadlines of October 8, 2014, and February 17, 2015. The MicraGEM-Si™ Design Guide can be accessed through CMC Microsystems’ website at: www.cmc.ca/MicraGEM-Si

Micralyne features the MicraGEM-Si™ Platform in Booth #1903 at the Optical Fiber Communication (OFC 2014) trade show in San Francisco, California, March 11 -13, 2014. A MicraGEM-Si™ white paper is available at http://www.micralyne.com/micragem-si/

About Micralyne Micralyne is one of the world’s leading independent developers and manufacturers of MEMS and micro fabricated products. Headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Micralyne’s diverse customer base includes both innovative Fortune 100 companies and pioneering high-tech start-ups. With a proven manufacturing track record and a rich development history, Micralyne is able to commercialize complex MEMS devices to enable its customer’s products.

About CMC Microsystems As manager of Canada’s National Design Network, CMC Microsystems works with institutional researchers and industry, providing commercial-calibre tools, systems, expertise, services, and access to world-class infrastructure for designing, developing and optimizing innovations in microsystems. CMC provides a path to commercialization of related technologies, and enables the development and sharing of new tools, methodologies and processes to make researchers and industry more productive.

Micralyne, Inc., an independent MEMS developer-manufacturer specializing in high-value applications, today announced a collaboration with Adamant-Kogyo Co., Ltd., a leading supplier of fine precision products for the optical communications industry, for the development and manufacture of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS)-based fiber-optic subsystems. The companies’ joint solutions will serve markets for which a high-performance, ultra-reliable sensor-enabled communications backbone is essential.

Building upon a decade-long partnership in the global MEMS industry, Micralyne and Adamant will leverage their respective core competencies to develop new MEMS-based optical subsystems.

“Micralyne’s strength in optical MEMS component integration in performance-intensive industrial applications complements the subsystem design and packaging expertise of our longstanding partner, Adamant,” said Mike Ciprick, acting president and CEO, Micralyne. “Through our new alliance with Adamant, we aim to lead the industry in quality and reliability for the wide range of applications that benefit from MEMS-based fiber-optic sensors.”

“The global market for fiber-optic point sensors and related subsystems is growing exponentially,” said Yoichi Shimoda, president, Adamant. “In fact, the market research firm, ElectroniCast, has forecast a compound annual growth rate of more than 20% between 2012-2017, reaching US$3.98 billion by 2017. With demand for high-performance MEMS sensors especially strong—and with Micralyne so proficient there—we will work in partnership to map out the best possible solutions for this market.”

About Micralyne

Micralyne is one of the world’s leading independent developers and manufacturers of MEMS and microfluidic-based products. Headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Micralyne services a diverse customer base, spanning Fortune 100 companies and innovative start-ups. With a proven manufacturing track record and a rich development history dating back to 1982, Micralyne has helped to pioneer the MEMS industry by creating some of the world’s smallest mechanical structures for leading corporations. More information can be found at: www.micralyne.com.

About Adamant-Kogyo

Founded in 1957, Adamant supplies the optical communication industry with fine-precision products processed at submicron levels. Leveraging its strength in ICT (Information and Communication Technology), the company offers a wide range of essential networking products, such as ferrules and sleeves, which are critical and indispensable to optical networks. Adamant’s portfolio of products and services spans fiber-optic components, optical fiber current sensors, low-temperature co-fired ceramics (LTCC), liquid crystal displays (LCDs), precision processing technologies, and MEMS (through a partnership with Micralyne). More information can be found at: www.adamant-kogyo.com.

You have probably heard by now that Micralyne is experiencing difficulties in our business. We wish to provide you with an update at this time.

First, let us dismiss some of the rumors around the current situation. Micralyne is NOT bankrupt. We have filed for creditor protection for a time to allow the Company to restructure, negotiate with existing creditors and renegotiate old uncompetitive contracts. In Canada, this step of the process is not as severe as Chapter 11 in the US. One of the main differences, is that in our case, the Board of Directors and management remain in control of the company, its day to day business activity and future structure.

There are few factors that contributed to our current financial situation, but the main reason has been the loss of a major customer’s business. We felt the full impact of the loss last year and this year we are in recovery. We lost this customer’s business due to poor execution and lack of focus on their needs – issues we have addressed and changed in the last 2 years as evident by our current customers’ reaction and our commitment to execution. Since we addressed the root cause of the loss of this customer and now can re-negotiate those uncompetitive contracts, we are convinced that we will succeed in our restructuring and continue operation as a much stronger company.

Through this protection process and while this is a taxing time for our entire staff, we remain committed to our customers and it is “business as usual”. We are cash flow positive and have the cash to pay all our business obligations moving forward; these obligations include but are not limited to: wages, benefits, suppliers, fees, rent…etc. We are almost done with the restructuring and as of this week, we will pay a significant portion of our debt, which is a great leap forward towards exiting the creditor protection process. This has been a difficult but rewarding time as we experienced the positive reaction of our customers, partners and employees.

We are confident that we will grow out of this difficult time a stronger company in our market place. We want to thank you for your support and we promise to continue working to grow Micralyne to become the top MEMS provider creating brilliant solutions for you our customers today and tomorrow.

Edmonton, AB and Emeryville, CA – November 7, 2011 – Micralyne, Inc., a leading pure-play MEMS foundry serving high-performance biomedical, telecommunications and industrial markets, continues to expand the traditional role of foundry beyond manufacturing house. Today the company announced a partnership with Nanoshift, LLC, a product development firm specializing in emerging technologies, which places design, process development, fabrication and packaging under its purview. The more integrated approach to the design and production of micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) reduces the barrier to entry for companies that want to commercialize MEMS devices for volume production.

“Micralyne’s partnership with Nanoshift strengthens our position as a one-stop shop for the design, prototype, fabrication and packaging of differentiated MEMS devices,” said Nancy Fares, CEO of Micralyne. “Through our integrated approach, Nanoshift is no longer a third-party supplier; they are an essential part of a business process that we own, from start to finish. This business model addresses the most fundamental challenges of fabless companies. It minimizes risk and cost for customers who want to move beyond proof-of-concept to volume production—regardless of their expertise in MEMS.”

“Nanoshift’s relationship with Micralyne supports the spirit of innovation by streamlining the process of getting a MEMS device to market,” said Salah Uddin, Co-founder of Nanoshift. “This integrated model removes the ‘fear factor’ in moving IP through prototype, design and production. Technology transfers are no longer hand-offs; they are integral steps in a carefully articulated business process. And customers work with a central project manager—rather than a handful, which eases communication during each phase of the process. This unified approach improves quality and speeds design-to-delivery over piecemeal solutions.”

About Micralyne Micralyne is one of the world’s largest independent MEMS foundries. Headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Micralyne serves a diverse customer base, from innovative Fortune 100 companies to high-tech start-ups. With a proven track record in MEMS manufacturing and a rich development history dating back to 1982, Micralyne has helped to pioneer the MEMS industry by creating some of the world’s smallest mechanical structures for leading corporations.

About Nanoshift Nanoshift, LLC is a privately held design and development company that specializes in emerging technologies. Founded in 2005, it has become a leader in high-technology research, development and fabrication. The Company serves a global customer base, offering fabless process design, development and fabrication for MEMS, microfluidics, nanotechnology and the solar industry.

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]]>0micralyneWEBBadminhttp://www.micralyne.com/?p=42332011-11-02T16:42:13Z2011-11-02T16:42:13ZNancy Fares, president and CEO of Micralyne, one of the world’s largest pure-play MEMS foundries, will moderate a panel of global MEMS fabrication business leaders as they boldly explore diverse approaches to manufacturing MEMS. Fares will challenge panelists—who represent very different perspectives on the manufacturing spectrum—to explain their varied reasons for choosing fabless, fab-lite or in-house manufacturing. She will solicit their candid opinions on how to come out a winner in this increasingly competitive and revenue-generating market.

Now in its seventh year, MEMS Executive Congress is an annual event that brings together business leaders from a broad spectrum of industries: automotive, consumer goods, energy/environmental, industrial, medical and telecom.

“The Canadian information and technologies industry represents a vitally important segment of the national economy”

Micralyne CEO Nancy Fares, a director of the ITAC Board of Governors, will lead Micralyne’s participation in several events: the Canadian Women in Communications (CWC) luncheon; media launch; Alberta Tech Council ICT Showcase; Board of Governors Dinner—at which former Canadian MP Preston Manning, now president and CEO of the Manning Centre, will speak; and, tours of Micralyne.

“The Canadian information and technologies industry represents a vitally important segment of the national economy,” said Nancy Fares, president and CEO of Micralyne, Inc. “ITAC companies are leading the way in job growth, R&D innovation and revenue generation, laying a fertile foundation for continued advancement. I am so pleased that the Alberta technology community will host the ITAC Board of Governors this year. This lends us a wonderful opportunity to showcase our collective capabilities and achievements.”

About ITAC

The Information Technology Association of Canada (ITAC) is the voice of the Canadian information and communications technologies (ICT) industry. ITAC represents a diverse ICT community spanning telecommunications and Internet services, ICT consulting services, hardware, microelectronics, software and electronic content. ITAC’s community of companies accounts for more than 70 percent of the 572,000 jobs, $140.5 billion in revenue, $6.0 billion in R&D investment, $31.4 billion in exports and $11.4 billion in capital expenditures that the ICT industry contributes annually to the Canadian economy. ITAC is a prominent advocate for the expansion of Canada’s innovative capacity and for stronger productivity across all sectors through the strategic use of technology.

Micralyne is one of the world’s largest independent MEMS foundries. Headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Micralyne serves a diverse customer base, from innovative Fortune 100 companies to high-tech start-ups. With a proven MEMS manufacturing track record and a rich development history dating back to 1982, Micralyne has helped to pioneer the MEMS industry by creating some of the world’s smallest mechanical structures for leading corporations.